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...attracted his first large audiences when, aged 20, he joined the 350th Field Artillery and banged his way from Camp Dix to France and back. On the strictly military phase of his service with the 350th, The Lion's recollections sound like a blend of Caesar's Gallic Wars and Alice in Wonderland. "Very few soldiers volunteered to go up to the front and fire a French 75," he declares, "and of those who did-few returned. The Lion stayed up at the front 33 days without relief, scoring several direct hits on the enemy. As a result...
...discovery of the tomb of great Caesar's ghost writer, one Aulus Hirtius. ... It is more than probable that Hirtius wrote some portion of Caesar's Commentaries, dividing with Oppius, another ghost writer of that day, the credit for authorship of the eighth book of the Gallic Wars...
...thing, the show has a lot of dependable talent: the amusing, if less than Bea-Lillie, drollness of Luella Gear; the Gallic, if less than Maurice-Chevalier, charm of Jean Sablon; the dazed, middle-aged prankishness of Bobby Clark ("I'm Robert the Roue of Reading, Pa."); the borderline sanity of Abbott & Costello; the magic bartending of "Think a Drink" Hoffman, who turns water into not only wine, but dry Martinis, Pink Ladys and piping hot coffee...
...French army is kept democratic by the invariable practice of allowing only one-half its active officers to be taken from Saint-Cyr and the Polytechnique, Gallic West Points. The result has been a businesslike class of fine professional officers. With a hierarchy of officers whose continuity of tradition has not been broken since the 1870s, the French are probably weak on new tactics. They are scholars in warfare. It is typical that able Chief of Staff Gamelin, even-tempered Parisian who studied under Foch at the Staff College, is so close a student of Napoleon's campaigns that...
...French President has ever completed a second-seven-year term. The only one who has ever tried served two years. Last week President Lebrun indicated that he would stay in office only so long as the present international crisis lasts. Gallic wits predicted that in that case he would have to serve his full term...